Dodgers Nation · Jan 30
MLB News: How Are Prospects Ranked?
With the MLB 2026 season fast approaching, news outlets are releasing their prospect rankings, something baseball fans circle to learn about the future of their teams or the league as a whole.
Ahead of a new season, prospect rankings offer a more hopeful outlook for struggling franchises, a path to continued success for contenders, and a database for any blockbuster trades that go down before the trade deadline.
While rankings of any kind tend to be based on subjective feelings, baseball scouts remove their biases and provide an objective analysis of a player based on what they are currently doing and how they project in the future, while taking into account the direction the sport is going.